Talk:W. R. Moses

This article was nominated for deletion on 17 January 2017. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Sources

Holden, Jonathan. "An Interview with W.R. Moses" (Kansas Quarterly, Kansas State University, Manhattan), Spring 1982, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 7-18. E.M.Gregory (talk) 22:18, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A source that would be useful, but may exist only in the original, paper copy. Academic libraries do old sets of the Kansas Quarterly.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:30, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not Moses' Collected but Robinson's?

I'm pretty sure he's talking about liberating a copy of Robinson's Collected Poems, not Moses' but I've reached my Google reading limit for this work so I can't scroll back to check. Anyone else able to verify? — Iadmc ♫^talk 00:43, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:29, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The plain meaning is that Ander Monson wrote of having "liberated" a copy of Moses' Collected Poems, not of Robinson's Collected Poems, he had already found an never-read review copy of Robinson's on his own bookshelf. I copied the text into the article. The problem is that although I first heard of Moses only yesterday, I have certainly read a lot about him and I do not see that a book of his "Collected Poems" was ever published. It may be a case of Monson's wording having misled me. Or, since this is the small college town where Moses spent most of his life teaching, the library could easily have had 2 copies of Moses's collected poems printed and bound by Moses' students or colleagues. I have certainly seen such books, they were not uncommon even in the pre-computer era. Just the sort of thing that Monson would have stolen.E.M.Gregory (talk) 11:45, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

OK. The wording of Monson's book certainly confused me but your explanation is probably correct. Thanks — Iadmc ♫^talk 22:44, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]